Middle Orient

The European Union and the United States of America ministerial meeting on justice and home affairs will take place in Washington on Monday. The EU and US delegations are going to exchange information on the recent

A Syrian government delegation will meet officials in Moscow Monday to discuss preparations for an international peace conference that Russia, the United States and the United Nations are trying to convene.

Three people were killed and 22 others wounded on Thursday in two explosions and a mortar attack against an old district of Syria’s capital of Damascus. The attacks targeted the al-Kallaseh neighborhood in the old quarter of Damascus.

The long-delayed conference aimed at ending Syria’s 32-month conflict will be held in Geneva on December 12, a Syrian government daily reported on Thursday, citing diplomatic sources in Paris. The Al-Watan newspaper said that US Secretary of State John Kerry had told his French counterpart Laurent Fabius that UN Secretary General Ban

Several rockets launched from the Syrian side of the border with Lebanon landed on the outskirts of the east Bekaa town of Sirin on Thursday without causing any casualties. According to the National News Agency six rockets crashed into uninhabited areas on the outskirts of the mostly Shiite town of …

Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has said Turkey’s relations with Kurds living in neighboring countries are not a threat and added that taboos regarding ties with Kurds should be broken. Davutoğlu’s comments came as he was on his way back to Turkey from a two-day-visit to Iraq on Monday

The United States welcomes the Syrian Coalition’s decision to participate in the Geneva II conference, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said on Tuesday night. “This is a significant step forward in the process to convene the Geneva conference, the goal of which is the full implementation of the Geneva

President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron spoke on Tuesday as part of their ongoing discussions on shared security interests, including Iran, Afghanistan and Syria, the White House announced.

Turkey has asked NATO to extend for another year the deployment of surface-to-air Patriot missiles to protect its troubled border with Syria because of a continuing “serious” threat, officials said on Wednesday. “We have received a letter from the Turkish government requesting the continuation of the Patriot mission,” a NATO official said.

Activists say clashes have flared up between Syrian troops and rebels on the southern outskirts of Damascus as part of a weeks-long government push to advance on opposition-held areas.